Shamez Budhwani

CTO

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada32 yrs 2 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 20 years of experience in application architecture.
  • Expert in both Legacy and Micro Services Architectures.
  • Proven mentor with strong cross-functional communication skills.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech architect with extensive experience in payment processing solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product DevelopmentEnterprise Architecture

Other Skills

APIsAgile MethodologiesAnalytical SkillsBig DataBusiness Process Re-engineeringBusiness RequirementsCloud ApplicationsCloud FoundryContinuous ImprovementCross-functional Team LeadershipData PipelinesDatabasesE-CommerceGradleHypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

About

Customer focused with more than 20 years of experience in designing and developing multi-tiered applications on top of both Legacy and Micro Services Architectures. Hardworking self-starter with excellent analytical and problem solving skills. Proven mentor and skilled at communicating with all organizational levels and cross-functional teams to develop a shared vision and foster a culture of excellence.

Experience

32 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
14 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Toast

2 roles

VP, Chief Architect, Fintech

Promoted

Feb 2025Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Remote

Chief Architect, FinTech

Feb 2023Feb 2025 · 2 yrs · Remote

Paysafe group

4 roles

VP Chief Architect, Payment Processing

Promoted

Apr 2021Jan 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Global merchant and payment processing solutions
Product DevelopmentE-CommerceAnalytical SkillsEnterprise ArchitectureCross-functional Team Leadership

Principal Product Architect

Promoted

Jun 2019Apr 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Responsible for the architecture of the Paysafe Unity platform for our integrated technology assets and capabilities.

Solutions Architect

Nov 2015Jun 2019 · 3 yrs 7 mos

  • Micro Service Architectures/PaaS:
  • Leading the architecture, development and design of a cloud base PaaS solution across the organization to create a single platform where multiple geographically dispersed developers within the organization can collaborate to build and deploy reusable applications across multiple data centers.
  • Payment Processing:
  • Hands-on experience developing significant parts of the Card, Check and other Alternate Payment systems as well as merchant billing payments, residuals, administration, operations systems.
  • Agile Development:
  • Deep knowledge in working in an agile environment. Ability to work with loosely specified requirements and define both functional and non-functional requires by creating product canvases, epics, user stories and detailed designs
  • Expertise in Application Life Cycle Management:
  • Create applications and processes that are highly configurable and can be automatically deployed to multiple environments using tools like Gradle, JIRA, GIT and Bamboo
  • Data Modelling:
  • Design major parts of the OLTP data model as well as review proposals made by senior developers and database architect.

Application Architect

Mar 2000Nov 2015 · 15 yrs 8 mos

  • Responsible for the overall design and architecture of key Optimal Payments applications. I have expertise is in the design and development of multi-tier Web applications using J2EE architecture.
  • I have played a key role in the development of many of the core transaction processing applications at Optimal payments.
  • My responsibilities include:
  • Participating in high-level requirements-gathering to help identify and prioritize the solution
  • Provide guidance on design alternatives and their implications (function, cost, complexity etc.) to select the most appropriate design
  • Convert high-level requirements into a complete set of functional and non functional requirements and architecture that the development team can implement.
  • Transition the project to the development team, explain the design and remain available to address questions or problems that arise during implementation
  • Assist with pre and post support, time estimates,design and coding

Nortel networks

3 roles

Team Leader/Architect

Promoted

Aug 1998Apr 2000 · 1 yr 8 mos · Greater Ottawa Metropolitan Area

  • Designed and developed an application that notifies users on a mobile device when priority email has arrived.
  • Designed a configuration management and documentation system using SGML technologies and implemented large parts of the authoring system.
  • Team leader of several developers in the development of an authoring system using feature driven iterative process.

Senior Developer

Promoted

Jan 1996Sep 1998 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Greater Ottawa Metropolitan Area

  • Implemented a web based packaging and configuration management system in Java
  • Developed a multi-threaded distributed tool manager using CORBA
  • Designed a Naming Service to allow servers to register and find other server

Compile and Build Specialist

Feb 1994Dec 1995 · 1 yr 10 mos · Greater Ottawa Metropolitan Area

  • Worked with developers globally to resolve software errors

Education

Carleton University

B Eng — Electrical

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